Back to the Beginning

In terms of simple science, time is a force that moves in one direction: forward. This, however, is not the way time is usually interpreted by people experiencing it. Works of fiction can capture human perceptions of time far better than the hard facts surrounding it. For my thesis, I wrote a play in anachronic order. My play has scenes that alternate between the past (1960s) and the present (1980s). The present scenes move forward in time, and the past scenes move backward in time as the play progresses. The final scene is simultaneously the first and last scene of the play, chronologically. In this way, I hope to give more background information on the characters at the same rate that the story progresses further. My play is a ‘slice-of-life’ story of a broken family, alternating between the courtship of Caroline and Scott and Scott’s return after a 18-year disappearance in order to connect with his daughter, Lori

Can observations look back to the beginning of inflation?

The cosmic microwave background can measure the inflaton potential only if inflation lasts sufficiently long before the time of horizon crossing of observable fluctuations, such that non-linear effects in the time evolution of Green's functions lead to a loss of memory of initial conditions for the ultraviolet tail of the spectrum. Within a derivative expansion of the quantum effective action for an interacting scalar field we discuss the most general solution for the correlation function, including arbitrary pure and mixed quantum states. In this approximation no loss of memory occurs - cosmic microwave observations see the initial spectrum at the beginning of inflation, processed only mildly by the scale-violating effects at horizon crossing induced by the inflaton potential.Comment: additional example and references, 5 page

Spin-Hall effect: Back to the Beginning on a Higher Level

The phenomena of the spin-Hall effect, initially proposed over three decades ago in the context of asymmetric Mott skew scattering, was revived recently by the proposal of a possible intrinsic spin-Hall effect originating from a strongly spin-orbit coupled band structure. This new proposal has generated an extensive debate and controversy over the past two years. The purpose of this workshop, held at the Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, was to bring together many of the leading groups in this field to resolve such issues and identify future challenges. We offer this short summary to clarify the now settled issues on some of the more controversial aspects of the debate and help refocus the research efforts in new and important avenues.Comment: 4 pages, Summary of the APCTP Workshop on the Spin-Hall Effect and Related Issue

Go Back to the Beginning: Career Development and the Challenges of Transitioning From the Military to Civilian Employment

This chapter examines the transition challenges facing military personnel to moving to civilian employment, a major issue for nations like the USA that have large armed forces. For such personnel, they seek to establish a career after a period of service and often without the credentials required for existing or future job vacancies. This chapter discusses the challenges of career transition from military to civilian employment, largely in the context of the US-based literature. The chapter proceeds to outline the range of obstacles to transition and then considers remedial measures to support transition ranging from pre transition to post transition support programs

Back to the Beginning Creation Shapes the Entire Story

So creation is more than a stage or scenery for God’s story. It is integral to the entire story. After all, the entire story is about God’s relationship to his creation, especially to those extraordinary creatures that he had formed from the ground to look after and cultivate his creation

Back to the Beginning - Rethinking the AFA-NIET Qualification System

On July 31, 2008, Professor Dan West (Director of Forensics at Ohio University) presented a paper at the 4th National Developmental Conference on Individual Events, in which he called our attention to the Culture of Qualifying . West (2008) explained that this obsession with qualifying for the AFA-NIET results in three problems: pulling events from the circuit after qualifying, hunting for legs in order to qualify for the NIET, and a decrease in the quality of regular season tournaments. He further contended that the AFA-NIET qualification system needs to be replaced – not modified, but replaced – by a method that better serves the activity. Naturally, this culture of qualifying is linked to numerous aspects of our activity – to say it\u27s the sole by-product of the at-large qualification system would be to exaggerate the influence of the at-large qualification method. But the leg system is undoubtedly a detriment to the forensics activity. While the leg system has been a topic of debate for years, we have yet to see any substantial progress in re-evaluating how our students qualify for the national tournament. After countless discussions, debates, and arguments, any talk of replacing the leg system has died in committees, and it\u27s time that more progressive action took place. To that end, this paper proceeds with a history of the AFA-NIET qualification methods and their modifications, an overview of the impacts the leg system has on forensics, and a ballot analysis that provides alternative methods for qualifying for the NIET

When Things End Sometimes They Go Back to the Beginning

Abstract: This study aims to determine the effectivity of remediation using the feedback form brochures to overcome the learning difficulty of students of uniformly accelerated motion (GLBB) in the class of SMP Negeri 2 Sungai Pinyuh Pontianak regency academic year 2012/2013 and determine the relationship between students ability to understand the concept of the the ability of student,s to solve problems after remediation. The research method used Pre Experimental Design with One-Group Pretest-posttest design. A total of 25 seventh grade students participated in this study. The data analyst show results feedback using the effective brochure remediate learning difficultiy of students with ES = 3.6 is high and there is a significant relationship between students ability to understand the concept of the students ability to problem solving (? = 0.955; ? = 5%, N = 25, ? table 0.409). Keyword: Remediation, Learning Difficulties, Brosure, Efectivity Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas remediasi bentuk umpan balik menggunakan brosur untuk mengatasi kesulitan belajar siswa tentang gerak lurus berubah beraturan (GLBB) di kelas VII SMP Negeri 2 Sungai Pinyuh Kabupaten Pontianak tahun ajaran 2012/2013 dan mengetahui hubungan antara kemampuan siswa dalam memahami konsep dengan kemampuan siswa dalam menyelesaikan masalah setelah remediasi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu Pre Eksperimen Design dengan One-Group Pretest-Postest Design. Sebanyak 25 siswa kelas VII berpartisipasi dalam penelitian ini. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahwa umpan balik menggunakan brosur efektif dalam meremediasi kesulitan belajar siswa dengan Es=3,6 tergolong tinggi dan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kemampuan siswa dalam memahami konsep dengan kemampuan siswa dalam menyelesaikan masalah ( = 0,955; = 5%, N= 25, tabel 0,409). Kata kunci: Remediasi, Kesulitan Belajar, Brosur, Efektivita

Letter from Margaret Mann to Mark Rich

This letter from Margaret Mann, secretary and instructor in stenography and typewriting at McMinnville College (later Linfield College), provides a response to a letter Mark Rich wrote before beginning his first year at the college. The letter answers questions regarding class requirements and his scholarship, and it explains the beginning of the fall semester was pushed back to October 1 because of a scarcity of labor.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/lca_rich/1001/thumbnail.jp